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["Ivan Lezhnjov Jr." <ivan.lezhnjov.jr AT gmail.com>]

After casting syslog-ng (stable grimoire version) I tried to run it by 
issuing 
the following command:

telinit run syslog-ng start

and it failed.

After checking the init script and trying to figure out what's wrong I've 
discovered that PROVIDES=syslog is responsible for the fail start.

root@sega:/home/users/ilj % cat /etc/init.d/runlevels/%S/syslog-ng
        #!/bin/bash

        PROGRAM="/sbin/syslog-ng"
        RUNLEVEL=S
        NEEDS="+local_fs"
        PROVIDES=syslog

        . /etc/init.d/smgl_init

root@sega:/home/users/ilj % telinit run syslog-ng start

After this command I get the prompt back immediately. No messages like
syslog-ng: Starting syslog-ng etc.

So, I commented out PROVIDES here

root@sega:/home/users/ilj % vim /etc/init.d/runlevels/%S/syslog-ng
root@sega:/home/users/ilj % cat /etc/init.d/runlevels/%S/syslog-ng
        #!/bin/bash

        PROGRAM="/sbin/syslog-ng"
        RUNLEVEL=S
        NEEDS="+local_fs"
        #PROVIDES=syslog

        . /etc/init.d/smgl_init

root@sega:/home/users/ilj % telinit run syslog-ng start
syslog-ng: Starting syslog-ng...
syslog-ng: success

Good it starts now.

I tried to run syslog-ng in foreground and asked it to be verbose (while 
starting via the init script with PROVIDES=syslog variable set) but it didn't 
say anything suspicious in return.

        #!/bin/bash

        PROGRAM="/sbin/syslog-ng"
        ARGS="-F -v"
        RUNLEVEL=S
        NEEDS="+local_fs"
        PROVIDES=syslog

        . /etc/init.d/smgl_init

Only this:
2008-08-22T15:54:59+03:00 sega syslog-ng[17259]: syslog-ng starting up; 
version='2.0.9'
2008-08-22T15:54:59+03:00 sega syslog-ng[17259]: Initializing destination 
file 
writer; template='/var/log/syslog', filename='/var/log/syslog'
2008-08-22T15:54:59+03:00 sega syslog-ng[17259]: Initializing destination 
file 
writer; template='/var/log/debug', filename='/var/log/debug'
2008-08-22T15:54:59+03:00 sega syslog-ng[17259]: Initializing destination 
file 
writer; template='/var/log/messages', filename='/var/log/messages'
2008-08-22T15:54:59+03:00 sega syslog-ng[17259]: Initializing destination 
file 
writer; template='/dev/tty12', filename='/dev/tty12'
2008-08-22T15:55:06+03:00 sega syslog-ng[17259]: Termination requested via 
signal, terminating;
2008-08-22T15:55:06+03:00 sega syslog-ng[17259]: syslog-ng shutting down; 
version='2.0.9'

I ran all these commands in runlevel 3 (if it matters).

Any ideas? :)

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